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New molecular data shed light on the global phylogeny and species limits of the Rhipicephalus sanguineus complex.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Jul 2016
Hekimoğlu Olcay, Sağlam İsmail K, Özer Nurdan, Estrada-Peña Agustin
Abstract excerpt
The Rhipicephalus sanguineus complex is a group of closely related tick species distributed all around the world. In this study, using mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA, new specimens of R sanguineus sensu lato from Turkey and Rhipicephalus camicasi from Kenya, were evaluated together with available sequences of this complex in GenBank. Our objectives were to delimit the complex, re-evaluate its global phylogeny...
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